After the final discovery of a photo that included the residence of my Alvarado ancestors? house from 1900s and 1920s Los Angeles tucked away in a neighborhood, I thought that was about as good a find as I could get.
So imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a close-up image of the very house my great-grandparents lived in when they first arrived in Los Angeles in 1899.
I had occasionally skimmed through collections of old images of Sonora Town, the area around the Plaza Church where Jos? Mar?a and Jes?s Alvarado first landed in the city. I was always on the lookout for that house with a long staircase set at an angle at the southeast corner of North Broadway and Bellevue Avenue (which became Sunset Boulevard in 1912 and today is Cesar Chavez Avenue). I had a schematic of the house at 412-414 Bellevue from a 1900 Sanborn Map, so I knew its basic size, shape and position.
Close-up of 1900 Sanborn Map location and schematic of Alvarado residence
So imagine my surprise when a look through the USC Digital Library revealed an amazing close-up of that very house.
The description reads:
Photograph of the exterior of an adobe built by Francisco Manza at 412 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1925. The adobe, built in 1865, is pictured here from the side; a small brick kiln and a collection of other yard items stands with a small palm tree alongside the house. Farther in, a door with a mail-slat and a six-paned sliding window are visible at the back of the raised porch, from which wooden stairs descend to the right.
Exterior of an adobe built by Francisco Manza at 412 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1925, University of Southern California. Libraries, Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
This has got to be one of the most exciting family history discoveries I?ve made, an actual glimpse into how my immigrant great-grandparents first experienced this city.
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